2010: A Bad Year for Comic Sales?

So how has 2010 been for comics?  How about the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year.  According to ICv2, overall comic sales are down 5.79%, and graphic novels are down 4.35%.  They report that "Year-to-date sale of comics and graphic novels through Diamond Comic Distributors are off sharply when compared with sales during the first 11 months of 2009."


November affected the sales numbers, negatively for comics and positively for graphic novels.  ICv2 says that, "Dollar sales of periodical comics in November were down 10.2% when compared with November of 2009, but graphic novels rebounded strongly with a 14.84% jump over November 2009 fueled by the release of the latest volume (#13) of Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead, which has got plenty of 'juice' thanks to the highly popular debut of The Walking DeadTV series on AMC."


Steve Rhodes